As conflicts intensify ill be meeting with kid players on the ground in the stands as of. Cutting through the rhetoric holding the path of a couch thats the conflict zone. Conflict zone with Tim Sebastian on d. W. Time. In july this year unesco declared nonbook cathedral a World Heritage site. Since the reformation this thirteenth century cathedral in germanys protestant heartland has been a lutheran church. You know sco calls it a masterpiece of human creativity. One of the most significant witnesses to the
high middle ages in germany nonbook at the girl has been the Landmark Church of the central german town for some a hundred years. But even more famous than the building itself is the face of one of its founders inside the cathedral. And the cathedrals fame is due mostly to the work of a remarkable sculptor his name is not known but historians refer to him as the known borg master he created the choirs green with its extraordinarily realistic figures and the twelve donor figures cal
the realistic ornaments on the capitals are even more striking than the human figures the filigree leaves and blossoms chisel into the stone look like illustrations from a botany manual. they are an anthem of god s creation. when you pass through the archway under the crucified christ you enter the west choir and find yourself confronted by larger than life statues famous for their expressiveness. these are not stylized statues of saints as you might expect but images of historical figures the founders of the cathedral it was common in the middle ages for the rich to donate money to build churches as reparation for their sins as if he didn t these figures are depicted with an almost incredible realisation tave. they look like portraits of living people but we must remember that the personalities depicted here had died between one hundred fifty